On 30.09.2020 07:42, Arshiya Shariff wrote:
Hi Martin ,

Thank you for the response.

With a payload of 200 bytes we were able to send 20K requests/sec with 200 users from Jmeter without any memory issue . On increasing the payload to 5Kb and the number of users to 1000 in Jmeter and sending 1000 requests per second , the heap of 20GB got filled in 2 minutes .

How long does it typically take (at the beginning of the test) for tomcat to *process* one of these requests ?

With 200 users the memory is cleared in the G1 mixed GC itself , but with 1000 users the memory is not cleared in the mixed GC , it takes full GCs of 7 to 10 seconds to clear the memory. These cases were executed with maxThreads 200 in tomcat , so we tried increasing the maxThreads from 200 to 1000, but still GC was struggling .

When we tried with 10 instances of JMeter , each with 100 users , where each 
instance was started with a delay of 1 minute we were able to see 1000 
connections created in tomcat without any memory issues. But when 1000 users 
are created using single instance of JMeter in 20 seconds , tomcat's memory is 
filling fast- 20GB in 2 minutes.
We suspect that the burst of connections being opened has a problem . Please 
help us with the same .

On analyzing the heap dump we see 
org.apache.tomcat.util.collections.SynchronizedStack occupying around 93% of 
3GB live data ,the remaining 17GB is Garbage collected in the heap dump.

Thanks and Regards
Arshiya Shariff

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 11:44 PM
To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Subject: Re: HTTP2: memory filled up fast on increasing the connections to 
1000/2000 (Embedded tomcat 9.0.38)

Hi Arshiya,


On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:59 PM Arshiya Shariff 
<arshiya.shar...@ericsson.com.invalid> wrote:

Hi All,
With 200 threads(users) , ramp up duration of 2 seconds , loop count
80 and by sending 1000 http2 requests/sec from JMeter Client to an
embedded tomcat application we did not observe any memory issue , but
on sending
1000 http2 requests/sec with 2000 or 1000 users from JMeter , the
application's heap space of 20 GB is occupied in 2 minutes and after 2
full GCs the memory clears and comes down to 4GB (expected) .


I am not sure whether you follow the other discussions at users@.
In another email thread we discuss load testing Tomcat HTTP2 and we are able to make around 
12K reqs/s with another load testing tool - 
https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=f8cfc13c-a66f0379-f8cf81a7-8692dc8284cb-2c0aae53194b790f&q=1&e=6a9c569d-7da1-4394-a9ac-bf72724992fa&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftsenart%2Fvegeta
For me JMeter itself failed with OOM when increasing the number of the virtual 
users above 2K.
There are several improvements in Tomcat master and 9.0.x in the HTTP2 area. 
Some of the changes are not yet downported to 9.0.x. We still test them, trying 
to avoid introducing regressions in 9.0.x.



Embedded tomcat Version:9.0.38
Max Threads : 200


The number of threads should be less if you do only CPU calculations without 
IO/network. If your app blocks on IO/network calls then you need more spare 
threads.
With more threads there will be more context switches and less throughput.
That's why there is no one golden rule that applies to all applications.
200 is a good default that works for most of the applications. But you need to 
test with different values to see which one gives the best performance for your 
scenaria.


All other properties are the tomcat defaults.

Why is tomcat not able to process many connections ?


You can tell us by enabling -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError and 
-XX:HeapDumpPath=<file-or-dir-path>. Once you have the .hprof file you can 
examine it with Eclipse Memory Analyzer tool and see what is leaking.
I will try to reproduce this issue tomorrow with Vegeta.


Why is the memory filled when the connections are increased, are there
any parameters to tune connections ?
Please let us know.

Thanks and Regards
Arshiya Shariff


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